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Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026
(android-developers.googleblog.com)
there is already a dev option that users need to enable to use fdroid and such, and google wants to change that now. I doubt that they will just add a 2nd dev option, because that wouldn't change anything.
It's not a dev option at the moment. It's a permission setting and it doesn't require enabling developer options.
oh, right, my bad. I so rarely go to that menu that I forgot it.